Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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We have a new date for Orchard Day!
Make a note in your diaries – Wednesday 20th February – that’s when Fruitful schools are planning to bring their team with support from News International who sponsored the Orchard Offer.  Mrs Hull’s going to try and book some dry weather for that week…
Any parents or friends who would like to help would be very welcome. Contact the school office and we’ll get in touch with details.
Primary 3 have been researching this week about the Nile in Ancient Egypt. We found out lots of interesting facts. In Art we used a range of materials to design our own Nile in a shoe box!
The Pupil Council met on Thursday and it was a pleasure to welcome reps from Primary 1, 2 and 3 for the first time. Josh, Natasha, Sophie and Ella are going to be a great help to the Pupil Council. At the meeting all of the Pupil Council reps shared their thoughts and ideas and were a credit to the classes they represent. We have another meeting planned in February when the Pupil Council reps are going to help prepare an assembly for the whole school. Some Pupil Council reps will also be busy in the next few weeks helping our support staff choose some new resources for the playground.
This week Primary 1m have been looking at symmetry.
We looked at butterflies and saw they have symmetrical wings. We made our own butterflies using paint. We also went around the school to look at reflections of things. We also used play-dough to make symmetrical faces. We made patterns and used mirrors to reflect them.
Til next week…
P1m
On Friday 14th December Primary 2 and 3 were well wrapped up in the cold and frost to work with our friends from the Oatridge campus of Scotland’s Rural College. They planted tree seedlings from the Woodland trust around the perimeter fence at the SUDS pond area of the school grounds. These little plants will grow in to rose, hawthorn, dogwood and holly hedges and encourage lots of different wildlife into the nature area at the pond. One special seedling was not planted – a Royal Oak, grown from seed collected from one of the royal household estates. This will be given a special position closer to the school, as part of the Jubilee Wood project.
The planting of our orchard has been postponed until the New Year, in the hope that we will have better weather.
We will still be planting the tree seedlings from the Woodland trust on Friday 14th as planned, with help from our friends at Oatridge. Thank you to all parents who offered help with the orchard – we will be in touch when the new date is announced.
This is from the new JRSO people Anna and Shea I am just reminding you that its really icey and snowy so be careful around the roads!
Thank you.
Congratulations to our Litter Poster winners!
The Eco committee were very busy in November judging the wonderful range of entries to our 2012 Litter Poster cometition.
Certificates were handed out at the Eco Assembly to the winners. Congratulations!
Prizes for the top 6 posters were kindly supplied by Morrisons in Livingston.
The winning entries from the Scotrail Poster competition are now on display on the Westbound platform at Uphall Station. Well done to Primary 5 and 6 for such excellent artwork, and congratulations to the worthy winners.
